What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
This is an idiom allusion known to women and children, which means to describe a person who endures humiliation and burdens, and is angry and strong. The protagonist of the story of the lying salary is the overlord of the late Spring and Autumn Period, the Yue King. In 496 BC, king Lu of Wu sent troops to attack the state of Yue, but was defeated by the king of Yue, and He lu was also seriously injured, and before dying, he instructed his son Fu Cha to avenge him. Keeping his father's words in mind, Fu Cha stepped up his military training day and night, preparing to attack the Vietnamese country. After two years, Fu Cha led his troops to a great defeat, and Gou Jian was surrounded, with no way out, and prepared to commit suicide. However, after lowering his posture, Yue Wang Gou Jian saved his life. Although humiliated, the monarch of a country chose to lie down and try his guts, just to wait for the opportunity to make a comeback.
In 482 BC, Fu Cha personally led a large army north to compete with the Jin state for the lord of the princes, and the Yue king Gou Jian took advantage of the fact that wu's elite troops were outside, suddenly attacked, defeated Wu bing in one fell swoop, and killed Prince You. When Fu Cha heard the news, he hurriedly led his troops back to China and sent someone to ask for peace with Gou Jian. At this time, the State of Wu was already at the end of its strong crossbow, and it could not resist the strong onslaught of the Vietnamese army at all, and it was repeatedly defeated. In the end, Fu Cha regretted that he did not listen to Wu Zixu's advice, and was so ashamed that he drew his sword and committed suicide, which prompted Yue Wang Gou jian to successfully destroy the State of Wu. So, the question is, after the destruction of Wu, why did the once-prosperous Yue kingdom gradually decline?
First of all, the Yue Kingdom is located on the south (Yang) side of Ouyu Mountain, and the monarch is a surname. The Kingdom of Yue was mainly centered on the tomb of King Yu of Shaoxing. At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, Yun Changshi and the State of Wu clashed and attacked each other. In 496 BC, after Yun Chang's death, Gou Jian took the throne, and in 473 BC, Gou Jian destroyed the State of Wu, sent troops north to cross the Huai River, and met with the Qi and Jin princes at Xuzhou to pay tribute to the Zhou royal family. The sphere of influence once reached Qilu in the north, the East China Sea in the east, and the present-day Anhui Huai and Ganpo in the west, dominating the southeast. However, after the death of King Gou of Yue, the State of Yue went from its peak to decline and was annexed by the State of Chu in the middle of the Warring States period. Therefore, among the seven heroes of the Warring States, there is no place for the Yue Kingdom. In this regard, in the author's opinion, the decline and demise of the Vietnamese state are mainly divided into the following reasons.
On the one hand, the loss of talent has prompted the country to decline. At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, the reason why Yue Wang Gou Jian was able to taste his guts at a low salary was inseparable from the two talents of Wen Zhong and Fan Li. Among them, Fan Li (536 BC – 448 BC), zi Shaobo, huaxia, and three households in Wandi, Chu (present-day Taohe Township, Huaichuan County, Nanyang). In the late Spring and Autumn Period, Fan Li defected to the Yue Kingdom, and was later worshipped as a Shang Dafu to assist the Yue Kingdom. He helped to revitalize the Yue Kingdom, destroy the Wu Kingdom, and achieve hegemony in Yixue, and was also named a general. After achieving fame, the rapids retreated bravely, and the pseudonym was Yizipi, and he traveled between the seventy-two peaks. During this period, he became extremely rich in business three times and scattered his family wealth three times. Later, he settled in Taoqiu in the Song Dynasty (present-day south of Dingtao District, Heze City, Shandong Province), and called himself "Tao Zhugong".
For Fan Li, a talent, the reason why he left the country was because he saw that Gou Jian could only "share hardships and hardships, not with the rich and noble." Moreover, before Fan Li retired, he also warned Wen Zhi that the bird was exhausted and the good bow was hidden. However, it is a pity that the language does not listen. After the fall of the State of Wu, Wen Zhong, believing himself to be highly meritorious, did not heed Fan Ligong's advice to retire, and was later tolerated by Gou Jian, and finally was given death by Gou Jian. In this regard, in the author's opinion, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the geographical location of the Yue Kingdom itself deviated from the Central Plains. At that time, the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas were still relatively remote places, the population was relatively sparse, and the level of science and technology and culture could not be compared with Henan, Shandong, Shaanxi and other central plains. Therefore, the talents of The Vietnamese country naturally need to attract the surrounding areas, especially the Central Plains.
However, the attitude of the Yue King to talents such as wen is undoubtedly chilling, which will lead to the later talents being more reluctant to defect to the already remote Yue country. Therefore, the lack of talent naturally made the Country of Vietnam from the peak of the moment to decline. In the Warring States period, the importance of talents was further enhanced. For example, the State of Qin was also located in a remote place, but because of Qin Xiaogong's thirsty attitude of seeking talents, he obtained such a genius as Shang Martingale. After the Shang martingale transformation, the Qin state gradually rose, and finally unified the six kingdoms, ending the Warring States era.
On the other hand, although the Yue King can only "share the hardships, not the same riches". However, from the perspective of overall ability, Yue Wang Gou Jian is still a well-deserved Spring and Autumn overlord. However, after the Yue king's collusion, civil unrest occurred frequently in Vietnam, and the overall level of the monarch was declining day by day, which also made the Yue kingdom only flourish for a while and could not continue. After the conspiracy, there were successive incidents of killing the king in the country of Yue, the so-called "three killings of the king by the Yue people". For the process of the Yue King Zhu Gou killing his father to usurp the throne, the record in the Bamboo Book Chronicle is relatively brief, "not shou li ten years to see the killing, for the blind girl, the second Zhu Gou li", there is no antecedents and consequences. However, this incident obviously caused serious consequences, not only laying the groundwork for the constant phenomenon of king-killing in the middle of the Warring States period, but also directly foreshadowing the fiasco of the Yue state and the end of the hegemonic status of the Yue state in the Chu-Yue War that occurred shortly after.
According to historical records, in the remaining ten years of the Yue King (363 BC), si, the younger brother of the temple district, killed the Marquis again and established Wu Zhao as the King of Yue. Since the "rebellion of all blames", tragedies of killing kings and fathers have continued to occur in the court of The State of Vietnam. In this regard, in the author's opinion, the killing of each other among the nobles of the Yue kingdom has caused great chaos within the Yue kingdom, and the hegemony created by the Yue king has also declined. It is worth noting that, more similar to the State of Yue, the Qin State from the late Spring and Autumn Period to the early Warring States Period, the State of Zhao and other princely states in the early Warring States Period also had relatively fierce and long-term civil unrest. However, both the State of Qin and the State of Zhao were able to end civil unrest because they were more on the throne as monarchs, such as Qin Xiangong, Qin Xiaogong, Zhao Suhou, Zhao Wuling And so on.
Finally, corresponding to this, since the Yue King's conspiracy, there has not been a monarch who has turned the tide. In addition, the foreign strategy of the Yue state in the middle of the Warring States period was wavering, or it was actively making enemies, which also accelerated the demise of the Yue state. Wu Qi (?) –333 BC), also known as Wuqiang, son of King Wuyu of Yue, younger brother of King Wu of Yue, and the last monarch of the State of Yue during the Warring States period. After King Wu of Yue ascended the throne, he sent troops to the Northern Expedition to the State of Qi. King Qi Wei, the ruler of the State of Qi, sent emissaries to persuade King Wu of Yue to say: "If the State of Yue does not attack the State of Chu, the large cannot be called king, and the small cannot be hegemonic." Under the persuasion, or rather, flickering of the emissaries of the State of Qi, the King of Yue gave up attacking the State of Qi and turned to attacking the State of Chu.
In this regard, the king of the State of Chu, King Wei of Chu, sent troops to meet the Yue army, defeated the Vietnamese army, killed the Yue king Wu Qi, and occupied all the Yue state and its Former Wu homeland all the way to the coast of Zhejiang, and the Chu army then went north to defeat the Qi army in Xuzhou. Since then, the Yue kingdom has fallen apart, and the sons of the Yue royal family have competed for the throne, some of them are called kings, some are called kings, they live on the coast south of the Yangtze River, and they submit to the Chu state. In the Warring States period, the contest between the various princely states obviously required a combination of vertical and horizontal wrists, but the Already declining Yue State wanted to provoke the powerful Chu State and thus kill itself. In this regard, in the author's opinion, it is precisely because in the middle of the Warring States period, it bid farewell to the big stage of history. Therefore, The Vietnamese kingdom was very prosperous, even surpassing South Korea, one of the seven heroes of the Warring States, but it still failed to have a place in the seven heroes of the Warring States.